Buchenwald Concentration Camp Photographs

23 items in this album on 2 pages.


A pile of human remains at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, Germany, Apr 1945	Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White taking a photograph at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, 1945

Medics of US 3rd Army conferring at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar, Germany, 11 Apr 1945	American generals touring Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Gotha, Germany, 12 Apr 1945, photo 1 of 3

American generals touring Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Gotha, Germany, 12 Apr 1945, photo 2 of 3	American generals touring Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Gotha, Germany, 12 Apr 1945, photo 3 of 3

Dwight Eisenhower and other officers inspecting the remains of a German attempt to destroy the remains of dead Jewish prisoners at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Gotha, Germany, 12 Apr 1945	Dwight Eisenhower inspecting Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Thuringia, Germany, 12 Apr 1945; note George Patton in crowd about a quarter of the way from the left of the photograph

George Patton, Omar Bradley, and Walton Walker touring the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Gotha, Germany, 12 Apr 1945	Patton and Bradley at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp in Thuringia, Germany, 12 Apr 1945

Patton arriving at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp in Thuringia, Germany, 12 Apr 1945	Patton preparing to depart from the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp in Thuringia, Germany, 12 Apr 1945

Survivors of Ohrdruf Concentration Camp demonstrating a method of torture they were subjected, Thuringia, Germany, 12 Apr 1945; Alois Liethe (mustached) was interpretor to Eisenhower	After being liberated by the US 1st Army, a Russian prisoner points out one of the particularly brutal guards at Buchenwald, Germany, 14 Apr 1945. Note guard’s black wound badge indicating he is combat wounded.

Bodies of victims piled in a trailer at Buchenwald concentration camp at Weimar, Germany, 14 Apr 1945	Inhumane conditions at Buchenwald, 16 Apr 1945, photo 1 of 2

Inhumane conditions at Buchenwald, 16 Apr 1945, photo 2 of 2	US Senator Alben Barkley visiting Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany, 24 Apr 1945

A recently-liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp survivor, near Weimar, Germany, Apr-Jun 1945	American troops at the main gatehouse of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, circa Apr 1945.